Multimedia Event Prompts for Non-Immersive Playback Screens

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Solution Overview

Problem

In non-immersive play modes, such as floating window or split screen, users often miss key events in multimedia resources due to reduced attention, leading to a diminished user experience.

Innovation Solution

An information display and processing method that detects key events in multimedia resources and displays event prompt information on the play screen, ensuring users are alerted to important content even in non-immersive modes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If non-immersive play mode is used to allow users to view other content resources simultaneously, then user multitasking capability is improved, but user attention to the multimedia resource decreases leading to missed key events

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultitasking capabilityVSAvoidkey events
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a feedback mechanism by detecting key events in the multimedia resource and sending notifications to the user's device. When a key event occurs, the system processes the event data, determines its significance, and provides feedback to the user through notifications, ensuring users are informed of important moments even when viewing other content simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary component that acts as a bridge between the multimedia resource and the user. This intermediary detects key events, processes them through event processing logic, and delivers condensed information to the user's device, allowing users to stay informed without directly watching the multimedia content at all times.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If event prompt information is displayed on the play screen to alert users of key events, then user awareness of key events is improved, but display screen complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvekey eventsVSAvoiddisplay screen
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential key event information from the multimedia resource and displays it as concise prompt information on the play screen. Rather than showing complete event details or complex interfaces, the system takes out only the most critical information (event type and condensed description) to minimize visual clutter while maintaining effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The event prompt information is displayed in a localized, non-intrusive manner on the play screen. The notification is positioned and styled to provide necessary information without dominating the entire display, allowing users to perceive key events while maintaining the overall simplicity and usability of the interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12556776B2Information display and processing methods and apparatuses, device, and medium
Publication Date: 2026.02.17 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Information display and processing methods and apparatuses, a device, and a medium are provided. The information display method includes: in cases where the playback mode of a target multimedia resource is a non-immersive playback mode, receiving key event information from a server, the key event information being used to indicate that, on the basis of resource data of the target multimedia resource, it has been determined that a key event has occurred; and displaying, on the playback screen of the target multimedia resource, event notification information corresponding to the key event.